Whiffletree-hook



(No Model!) 0. SHUMAN.

WHIFFLETREE HOOK.

No. 358,079. Patented Feb. 22, 1887-.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES SHUMAN, OF RUCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

WHlFFLETREE-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358.079, dated February 22, 1887.

Application filed Octohcr 18, 1886. Serial No. 216,583. (No model.)

To otZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES SHUMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Rockford, in the county of Vvinnebago and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in WVhiffletree-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to whiffietree-hooks employed in connection with wood Whitfietrees. Its object is a reliable and cheap fastening of the hook with the whiffietree; and it consists, essentially, of a hook or other tracefastening, with shaft to enter the end axial center of the wood whiffletree and a clasp to embrace its rear face and means to fix the clasp to the wood, all of which, in connection with the drawings, will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, in which the several figures are isometrical, Figure 1 represents a well known form of trace-hook, in connection with myimproved attachments, in place on the end portion of a wood whiffletree, shown partially in section, and without the use of aferrule. Fig. 2 represents a tracehook with my improved attachment in connection with an end ferrule in place 011 the end portion of a wood whiffietree, partially shown in section. Fig. 3 represents my improved attachment in connection with a ferrule in place on the end portion'of a wood whiffletree, partially shown in section, and in which a loose hook is employed. Fig. 4.- represents a ring in connection with my improved attachment.

The hook or trace-fastening, Figs. 1 and 2, consisting of the curved portion 1, with end cross-bar, 2, are substantially such as have been heretofore used for likepurposes. This hook is formed with an end bar, 3, to engage the end portion of the wood whiffietree 4-, and a continuation of the end bar, 3, in bar-clasp form 5, is bent to embrace the rear face of the wood whiffletree. A shaft, 6, of bar form, preferably rectangular in section, with concave sides, projects from the face of the end bar and enters the axially-bored end center of the wood whiffletree, and a rivet, 7, nail, or other equivalent," passed through the free end of the bar-clasp into or through the wood whiffietree, serves to fix the hook in place.

In Figs. 1 and 2 I have employed, in connection with my improved attachment, a tracefastening, known as the fixed or rigger hook. In Fig. 3 I have employed,in connection with my improved attachment, the well-known loose hook 8, and. in Fig. 4. the ordinary ring 9 is employed.

In the application of the loose hook or ring, as shown, the bar-clasp 5 is simply an extension of the curved portion 1 of the trace-fastening of Figs. 1 and 2, and is simply a mechanical change to adapt my improved attachment to the loose trace-fastening.

I do notwish to confine myimproved attachment to the trace-fastening shown, as other known forms may be employed and still be within the scope of my invention, so long as the essential features of my invention, consisting of the shaft to enter the axial center of the end portion of the wood whiffletree and the barclasp to embrace its rear face, to be fixed thereto, are employed.

In Figs. 2 and 3 I have employed the usual end ferrule, 10, and have dispensed with its use in Fig 1.

In Figs. 1 and 3 a nail, 11, is employed to fix the clasp'bar to the wood whiffletree,which, when driven in, will come in contact with the shaft and cause its end to curve from a line into the wood, forming a clinch to hold it in place.

Instead of the nail ll, arivet, 7, as shown in Fig. 2, or other equivalent devices, may be employed.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a whiffletree, a trace-fastening attachment consisting, essentially, of a shaft to enter the axial center of the wood whiffletree, and a clasp-bar springing from the outer end of the shaft and extending in relief parallel therewith to embrace its rear face, said shaft and clasp-bar produced in one piece, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a whiffletree, a ferrule to embrace its end portion, a trace-fastening with shaft to enter the axial center of the whiftletree, and a clasp-bar to embrace its rear face, said shaft and clasp-bar springing from the outer end of the shaft and extending in relief parallel therewith, produced in one piece, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, with the wood Whifflefastening to secure the trace and a trace-fasttree, of a trace-fastening attachment consistening attachment, said attachment consisting ing of a shaft to enter the axial center of the of a shaft to enter the axial center of the whittle- .Whiffletree,aclasp-bar springingfrom the outer tree and a clasp-bar springing from its outer r 5 5 end of the shaft andextending in relief parallel end portion and extending in relief parallel therewith to embrace its rear face, and a nail to the axial shaft, substantially as and for the or its equivalent to fix the clasp-bar to the purpose set forth.

whiffletree, said shaft and clasp-bar produced CHARLES SHUMAN. in one piece, substantially as and for the pur- WVitnesses: IO pose set forth. A. O. BEHEL,

4. As an article of manufacture, a trace- JACOB BEHEL, 

